What do you do when the makeup artist you photographed for personal branding images posts on Facebook that she is looking for a photographer that would be willing to shoot a concept series with her? You raise your hand, jump up and down and say "ME PLEASE!!!!" on her post. Then when she is so happy that you would be willing to do it, you get down to business and start the planning phase. Meet Lisa Hong Nghiem! Her website is: www.lhnbeauty.com She does great work. I highly recommend her for your wedding, special date night, or anything in between. Lisa and I worked on her original concept of flowers; a flower wall with a model standing within it, a high key image of another model from the shoulders up with flowers around her face and lastly a tub shoot with floating flowers. Here are some of the images from those 3 sessions. This row of images was the flower wall with the beautiful model, Taylor Callahan. You can see more of this beauty on Instagram as: tlc1795. As Lisa and I were discussing about doing a flower wall and how we were going to accomplish that, something I'd seen online somewhere popped in my memory. The Michaels Challenge. Do you know what that is? It is where you purposely take a portrait in an unlikely place...... For us it was at Michaels Craft Store in my town. We brought lighting gear that I hand held while Lisa helped out where ever she could. She found a frame to hold up in front of Taylor and also held up some greenery behind her. We had so much fun trying out all the flowers along the shelves and trying to make sure that none of the tags showed up. It was a lot of creative Photoshop work to make the price tags invisible. We never harmed anything in the store and put everything back in it's place. The customers hardly noticed us, except for the giggling now and then. These images are of the lovely Krissi Glover. You can find her on Instagram at: krissaygirl and out hair stylist is Lauren Graves and you can find her on Instagram as: lauren.hair.design With Krissi's session, we decided to shoot the images in my home, making it a temporary studio. This was the 2nd in The Bloom Series; all about the face and flowers. Lisa found our wonderful hair stylist Lauren and told her we needed more of an avant-garde style and that we needed to place the flowers she found around her face and in her hair. So we put up my background stand and loaded it with a roll of white paper and got to work. With Krissi we did our shoot to music. It was so much fun with the music, that I will have to do that again! This is the gorgeous Analisa. You can find her on Instagram at: analisas28
This session concluded our Bloom Series. The beauty in the tub with flowers. We did half of the session with plain old warm water. The second half we added milk to it to be able to get some different images. These were shot in a studio in St Paul with and old fashioned claw foot tub. It was real hard to find a studio with a tub that could be rented out. I even got on a ladder for this last set in the series. A first for me. It was so worth it for the images we got. Lots of fun too. In all three parts of this series, I've learned some things. I learned that you can shoot almost anywhere and still get gorgeous portraits that are wall worthy, but you need to be prepared to do some extra Photoshop work.....hiding price tags, taking another persons fingers out of the shot, etc. I also learned that to make sure all the things that you want in the shots, will stay in the shots. We only wanted Krissi's bare shoulders in the image along with her full braid and flowers. Well her braid kept falling past where we wanted the image to finish at, so that we were not showing a lot of cleavage. Afterward I learned that if I would have put a thin wire in the end of her braid and then bent it into a curl, I would not have had to cut some of them off and had all the work in editing to curl that end up and to fix skin where the braid had been. In the last of the series, I learned that it is good to try things out before hand, like seeing if fake flowers and petals would actually float and not flip over or sink. I had read that you can place the flowers on top of a small chunk of bubble wrap and that they would float. Not so much...lol! Some floated, some had to be edited out and some put back in during the editing process. It's always good to learn things though isn't it. You grow personally and professionally that way. All in all we had a lot of fun, I met some great women and got gorgeous images out of it. If you'd like to book a more creative session like these, click the contact page to reach me. Have a great day!
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I've always loved taking pictures. It's only been in the last few years that it's become a passion of mine. My husband teases me that I am always looking at my surroundings as if I was looking thru my viewfinder. He's right! Archives
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